The Fall of the House of Wilde (2016)
“She fuelled speculation by sending the following goading enquiry to Saunders’s News-letter: ‘A number of boys were selling a pamphlet and through curiosity I purchased one in which the knight’s name most disreputably figured. Can it be possible the occurrence therein related took place? If untrue, the knight ought to take action and publish the offender. The pamphlet is six months in circulation and its accuracy has not been questioned.’2 Mary kept up the flow of pamphlets, sending more to Merr...ion Square, with a warning of increased circulation. ‘Sold at the Music Hall last Wednesday, the proceeds to pay the expenses for a further edition.’ Meanwhile she continued her tirade by producing thinly disguised events as doggerel. Worse, she published drivel in the Irish Weekly Advertiser on 2 and 9 March 1864 and signed it ‘Speranza’.3 Jane went to Bray with the children; Mary followed. There she organised newspaper boys to distribute pamphlets. They delivered a copy to all the houses on the street, and paraded with their placards up and down outside the Wilde home in Bray.MoreLess
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